Abstract

Fan fiction—fiction written by fans of a game, movie, television show, or book and based on the characters—is a massive enterprise today. For example, there are hundreds of thousands of stories written by fans of the Harry Potter series on a variety of Web sites (see, for example, http:// www.harrypotterfanfiction.com/ and http://www.fanfiction.net/book/ Harry_Potter/). There are a myriad more on other topics written by fans of nearly any media product one could think of, including some long disappeared from mainstream attention. On fan-fiction writing sites, writers gain instruction, mentoring, feedback, and an audience (Black, 2008; Hellekson & Busse, 2006; Jenkins, 2008).

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